How to protest a proposed refunding plan

(a) Any owner of property, the assessments on which to pay the outstanding indebtedness have not been fully discharged, may, at any time before or at the public hearing, file in writing with the council any protest, objection, or suggestion as to the proposed refunding measure, stating briefly the reason therefor, or may present the same in person orally at the public hearing. If the owners of real property representing 30 percent or more of the outstanding improvement assessments at the hearing, or prior thereto, file with the council written protests duly acknowledged by such owners against the proposed refunding plan or against any part of the plan therefor, the same shall not be made contrary to such protest. If the protest is against the adoption of any refunding plan, the same shall not be made, and the proceedings shall not be renewed within one year from the date of closing the public hearing, unless each owner protesting shall sooner withdraw the owner’s protest. (b) Any lessee of any property to be assessed under Articles 8 through 14 shall be subrogated to all the rights of such owner to protest by filing with the council before or at the hearing a certified copy of the lessee’s lease, together with a citation of the book and page of the public record of the same if it be recorded. Any lessor of such lessee, or any owner of property to be assessed may, at any time before the closing of the public hearing, make void the protest or the right of protest of any lessee of the property on consideration of filing with the council a duly acknowledged waiver of the stipulation in the lease that requires the lessee to pay the special assessment, and a written agreement by the lessor or owner to pay the special assessment to be made under the proposed improvement. (c) At the public hearing, the council shall sit as a board of equalization to receive complaints or objections respecting the total amounts of the proposed assessments. )